culverkey
noun/ˈkʌlvə(ɹ)ki/
Etymology From culver + key?
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Obsolete An English meadow plant, perhaps the columbine or the bluebell squill (Hyacinthoides non-scripta).
- a girl cropping culverkeys and cowslips, all to make garlands1653, Iz[aak] Wa[lton], The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man’s Recreation. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing, […], London: […] T. Maxey for Rich[ard] Marriot, […], →OCLC; reprinted as The Compleat Angler (Homo Ludens; 6), Nieuwkoop, South Holland, Netherlands: Miland Publishers, 1969, →ISBN: